Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

Linus Torvalds wrote:

But the fact is, git isn't really that hard to work out, and the commands 
aren't that complicated. There's no reason to rename them. We do have 
other problems:

 - default branch selection for merging is broken (it should definitely 
   take the current branch into account). When I do "git pull" with no 
   branch specification, and I happen to be on a branch that is associated 
   with something else than "master" in the remote, I shouldn't merge with 
   master.

This problem is _slightly_ migitated by branch.<name>.merge config variable.
Slightly because you have to specify branch to merge, instead of forbidding
merge if you are not on specific branch (and you don't override it).

 - I agree that having to create temporary branches to just look at a tag 
   that you don't want to actually develop on is just unnecessarily 
   bothersome.

Agreed.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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